KNIGHT, "Christ's own _knight_" (M12,_a_), soldier. "A _knight_ with a spear."--_Youth_, Anon. Plays, 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 97,_d_. "That _knycht_ quha peirsit our Lordis syde with the speir."--Winzet, _Four_ _Scoir Thre Quest_. (1563), _Works_ (1888), I. 77. KNIL, "I rang her a _knil_" (N97,_d_), a loud peal on a bell: specifically the passing bell, but frequently used of more or less violent ringing. K. Q. TITLE, see Jack Noble. KYX, "as dry as a _kyx_" (R271,_b_), a dry, hollow stalk. "Elders they may bee, which being fullest of spungie pith, proue euer the driest _kixes_."--_Pappe_ _w. Hatchet_ (1589), Civ. LADE, "by whom thou art _lade_" (IP335,_b_), led. LADYDOM, "Chwas besiraunce your _ladidom_ to see" (R213,_c_). Mr. Magnus says "a new formation." Murray's first quotation is dated 1843. LADY OF WOLPIT (IP315,_d_), this should have been Woolpit, near Bury-St.-Edmunds. See Woolpit. LAMMAS, "at the latter _Lammas_" (R219,_a_), never: see _Slang and its Analogues_. LAVATORY, "that blessed _lavatory_" (M3,_c_), a figurative usage: cf. "the _lavatory_ of grace" (_Pilgr. Perf._, W. de W. 60_b_, 1526). LAY, "hold for the _lay_" (JE353,_d_), lake, pool: in the _O.E.D._ the latest quotation for the literary use of this word is 1481, later ones being taken from the early nineteenth century dialect glossaries. This example is therefore useful. LEAD, "I have no _lead_ on my heels" (M25,_a_), the "heel of lead" was proverbial for slow, unsprightly movement: cf. "Love, I am full of _lead_" (Shakespeare, _Ant. and Cleop._, iii. 11, 72). LEARN, "Titivillus can _learn_ you many pretty things" (M25,_d_), this present-day vulgarism was formerly in constant literary use. Wyclif in his first (1382) rendering of Prov. ix. 7 employed it--"Who _lerneth_ a scorner," etc.: in the revised text of 1388 he substituted "techith." LEFT HAND, see Hand. LEGS, see Titivillus. LEMAN, "take thee a _leman_" (M27,_a_), mistress, whore: see other volumes of this series. LESE, "an open _lese_" (N108,_d_), pasture, meadowland, common. "We been his people and scheep of his _leese_."--_Prymer_ (_c._ 1400), 17 (1891). LESING, "many a _lesing_" (M18,_b_), lie, lying, falsehood. LET, "not minding you to _let_" (R188,_b_), hinder, obstruct. LIKELY, "such a _likely_ man" (M27,_d_), in original _lygh[t]ly_; seemly, becoming, good-looking. "The damoysel beheld the poure knyght, and sawe he was a _lykely_ man"--Malory, _Arthur_ (1470-85), II. ii. 77. LIMIT, "a pardon by _limit_" (M8,_c_), in original _bely_ _mett_. Apparently a pardon sold or bestowed by a friar limiter: see other volumes of this series. LION OF COTSWOLD (N109,_c_), a sheep: an earlier example than the first of the _O.E.D._ quotations. LIVE, "_on live_" (IP300,_c_), alive: an attributive use.